Overview

Revelations--and frozen corpses--multiply in a small, European village ""Male, Prussian, hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife."" At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small town far from home to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a farmer. But when Redo begins to dig up the field, the perfectly preserved, frozen corpse of a soldier emerges. The next day, Redo uncovers two more soldiers, dressed in uniforms of an earlier age. And then there are more. As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it. What will be excavated and what will remain buried? Subtle, subversive, and full of surprises, this ingeniously structured novel heralds a talented writer whose experimentations in style are as dazzling as his humane, spirited story of oppression, erasure, and endurance.

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Málaga Novel Prize Winner PEN Translates Award Winner Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize Longlist ""Mora populates [Centroeuropa] with a cast of memorable characters . . . on the way to a last act that features both nightmarish imagery and a stirring finale. The result will appeal to readers who like their historical novels with an eccentric twist and a dash of Nabokovian playfulness."" --Publishers Weekly ""Dazzling."" --Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, author of The Night ""Impeccable, from beginning to end."" --El País ""Mora embarks on a radical adventure in a Europe ravaged by wars and revolutions that has no reference in our current literature."" --La Vanguardia ""Vicente Luis Mora is one of the best writers Spain has today."" --El Mundo

Málaga Novel Prize Winner PEN Translates Award Winner Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize Longlist ""Dazzling."" --Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, author of The Night ""Impeccable, from beginning to end."" --El País ""Mora embarks on a radical adventure in a Europe ravaged by wars and revolutions that has no reference in our current literature."" --La Vanguardia ""Vicente Luis Mora is one of the best writers Spain has today."" --El Mundo

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Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. Former director of Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Málaga in Spain. Centroeuropa is his first novel to be published in North America.

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